1. Management almost always is a hygiene factor - good management is necessary but not at all sufficient, bad management will screw everything up. In general i

1. Management almost always is a hygiene factor - good management is necessary but not at all sufficient, bad management will screw everything up. In general it is safer to have minimal management and rotate them out quickly - probably just have HR with budgets. 2. Good design is fairly simple if the right constraints are known. what the customer needs, hiw the market works. Org charts are an artificial constraint that if you do not allow other constraints to impact designers (ie coders) then that's the constraint they work to. In short if you let coders talk to users regularly and to the business daily things work out waaaay better than having them work to a PMs vague desires